![]() ![]() As his popularity waned towards the end of the 1970s, he became increasingly disillusioned about his work and his life. ![]() Translated the world over, his works helped establish him as one of the most significant American writers of his generation. Out of this period came some of his most famous works, the best known of which are Trout Fishing in America his collection of poetry, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster and his collection of stories, Revenge of the Lawn. During the 1960s, he became one of the most prominent and prolific writers of the counterculture. He was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, and moved to San Francisco in the mid-1950s when he became involved in the emerging beat scene. Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. ![]()
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